Monday, December 4, 2017

The American Cinematheque has struck a new 70mm print of Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and will have the exclusive rights in the Los Angeles region to exhibit the Best Picture Academy Award Winner at the Aero and Egyptian Theatres in 70mm. Lawrence of Arabia is one of the all-time favorites of American Cinematheque audiences and has been shown several times a year since we re-opened the Egyptian Theatre on December 4, 1998. The Cinematheque will schedule two extended runs per year, one at the Aero Theatre and one at the Egyptian Theatre. The first of these runs will take place December 15-30, 2017 at the Egyptian.

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

There was so much affection for the Amy Adams, recipient of the 31st American Cinematheque Award (presented this year byGRoW @ Annenberg), on November 10th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, that one expected the audience to break out in the classic tune “Once in Love with Amy.”

“It’s absolutely lovely,” she said during recent phone interview from her home in New York. “The problem I’ve been having with my feelings is that I think ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute, I’m not a movie star.”’

Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Hanks, Chris Messina, Dermot Mulroney, Natalie Portman, Justin Timberlake and Kristen Stewart and Dennis Villeneuve will appear in person to toast five-time Academy Award nominated and two-time Golden Globe winning actress Amy Adams, the 31st American Cinematheque AwardSponsoredby GRoW @ Annenberg recipient. The award will be presented to Amy Adams by Michael Shannon at the Cinematheque’s annual benefit gala on Friday, November 10, 2017 at The Beverly Hilton (9876 Wilshire Blvd.) in Beverly Hills, CA. The award presentation will be held in the International Ballroom and will include in-person tributes from some of Adams’ colleagues and friends, as well as a taped message from ARRIVAL producer Shawn Levy. Shannon appeared with Adams in three films, including NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, MAN OF STEEL and BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE. The Sid Grauman Award will be presented the same evening, to Richard Gelfond and Greg Foster on behalf of Imax.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Wade Major takes a look at the Apu Trilogy on occasion of our September 24 screening as part of the 75th anniversary of the Golden Globes. The series includes restorations of classic films that were made possible in part by funds awarded annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, with The Film Foundation. For more information about the other films in the series, click here. If you’re any kind of movie buff, you know that India makes more feature motion pictures than any other country on earth – but the nation that so famously struggles to this day with its centuries-old caste system also suffers from a kind of film industry caste system. Broken down by language, it is a hierarchy that favors films made in the three most dominant Indian languages – Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu – by a wide margin, relegating other regions to progressively lesser stature.

While Bengali cinema today falls somewhere near the middle of the pack, in the 1950s it was all but non-existent until a 31-year-old graphic designer by the name of Satyajit Ray, inspired by the work of De Sica and Renoir (for whom he had helped scout locations for The River), decided to adapt Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay’s beloved 1929 novel Pather Panchali into a film. Filmed intermittently over the course of three years – shutting down whenever they ran out of money and restarting as often as producer Anil Chowdhury was able to scrape together funds – Pather Panchali finally emerged as one of the great film sensations of 1955. Showered with acclaim and awards, Ray’s debut film not only launched the Parallel Cinema movement at home as a counterweight to Hindi-language Bollywood, but finally earned Indian cinema the international respect that had previously eluded it. An auteur was born, and cinema would never be the same.

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The American Cinematheque is an independent, non-profit cultural organization in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to the public presentation of moving image in all its forms. It is considered among the premier organizations of its kind in America. It presents festivals and retrospectives that screen the best of worldwide cinema, video and television from the past and present- ranging from the classics to the outer frontiers of the art form. In addition to presenting and celebrating all aspects of the Moving Picture on screen- the Cinematheque also provides a forum where film lovers and students can hear the world leading filmmakers, actors, writers, editors, cinematographers and others discussing their work and craft.